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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
existence since 1694 and are currently in use in a host of countries around the world. They blend elements of lotteries and savings programs. In particular, these products offer savers protection against principal loss and liquidity, but...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
change, the authors provide a quick and entertaining introduction to the science of climate change. It is a concise primer for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate. Even knowledgeable readers will learn something new about climate change. The Startup View Details
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- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
our emotional reactions to risk (playing the lottery even when we know better, for example), and we succumb to pressures to follow the group. As decision-makers, we are products of our environment to a greater degree than we realize. We...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
where she has advocated for the nonprofit to reevaluate its hiring and human resources. She speaks often of her "ovarian lottery ticket," deploying the Warren Buffett term for those born into lives of opportunity. Her philanthropy,...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Do You Feel Lucky?
Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979) fields questions on why the jackpot is so big, changes in the lottery world, and what you should do if you’re the one holding the lucky ticket....
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- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
wrong?" he asked a panel of venture capitalists. At first, Sahlman found little resistance to his gloomy forecast. "You're right in the aggregate," conceded Stan Reiss (HBS MBA '00), a general partner at Matrix Ventures. "We're in the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of...
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- Portrait Project
Inigo Amoribieta
I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life, but not by the roads they have traveled to reach them. Is...
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- Portrait Project
Elsa Sze
nurtured in a world of abundance – of resources, ideas, hope – Antonio has to defy his world of deprivation. What separates mine from his, is the lottery of birth. Every child deserves a fair shot in life. I will devote my life to mending...
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Bahia El Oddi
to spend my days playing with children in the street of Casablanca. Nobody could judge us. There was no social or racial divide. We were just equal, genuine kids. But one day, the lottery of life separated us. I went to school, while...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
As required, Koch told the SEC how many buyers he expected: 30,000. So when 100,000 people mailed in checks, Koch had to select 30,000 folks by lottery and return the others’ money. It was more than the financial equivalent of offering a...
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Sanjayan Manivannan
magical moments. I learned much later in life that creating magic takes tremendous sacrifice on the part of the magician. My parents, the first magicians I knew, left their lives behind to create for me a magical lottery ticket known as...
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Mina Kazanlieva
reunited with her family, who won the lottery for U.S. green cards and also moved to Princeton, NJ. Mina's interest in investing led her to Goldman Sachs, where she worked in the health-care sector, and Centerbridge Partners, where she...
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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
India, Kenya, Pakistan, or Vietnam where girls typically do not get much education. The U.S. girls raise money to help their partners and upgrade their schools. The truth is that we in the developed world have all won the lottery of...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
with matching funds. In the third case, participants were entered in a lottery that had a 5 percent chance of winning $100—but they would only win if they had met their weight loss goal for the month. This enticement took advantage of...
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Hayling Price
the city. The other was an impoverished community of poor people who had hoped to step up from even more dire circumstances in Harlem or the Bronx. "I saw the birth lottery up close and personal," he says. "We all lived...
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- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its...
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April White
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All right, next year I’m going to do this,’” Dyson recalls. He had...
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Paul Flannery